feeLit. International Literature-Festival Heidelberg

Dear Festival-Visitors,

We are happy to welcome you at the International Literature Festival 2023!

This year we offer the following ticket categories:

Single-Tickets
Evening-Tickets
Combi-Tickets: includes tickets for three to five events of your choice. The tickets are not personalized and therefore transferable or usable in another discount group.
Festival-Tickets
Free admission: For events with the note „free" we ask you to book a free ticket.
Special discounted tickets are available for students, schoolchildren, and others.
Our literature program for schools and students is available to school classes free of charge.

We accept the following payment options: Giropay, Mastercard, Visa und Payal.

Ticket exchange and return
It is not possible to exchange or cancel a ticket.

Where does the event happen? Literature-Tent (Universitätsplatz 1, 69117 Heidelberg)

Festival-Ticket

The Festival-Ticket allows you to attend all events, except guided tours and events for school groups.

Important:
Please register at the box office at least 30 minutes before the start of the event.
Otherwise, no admission can be guaranteed.

Festival-Ticket (Standard Price)

€80.00

Festival-Ticket (Discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+, disabled persons, students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€35.00

Evening-Tickets

Evening-Tickets for Events in the Literature-Tent (Universitätsplatz 1, 69117 Heidelberg) and the Heidelberg University, Alte Aula (Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg)

Wednesday 28 June 2023, Evening-Ticket for the Literature-Tent (from 6 pm)

Included events:
6 pm - Helga Schubert
8 pm - Ana Marwan
9.15 pm - Sinthujan Varatharajah

Evening-Ticket (Standard Price)

3 chargeable events included

€25.00

Evening-Ticket (discounted)*

3 chargeable events included
*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+, disabled persons, students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€15.00

Thursday 29 June 2023, Evening-Ticket for the Literature-Tent (from 5pm)

Included events:
5 pm - Katharina Hacker
6:15 pm - Aya Cissoko
7:45 pm - Ece Temelkuran
9 pm - Geetanjali Shree

Evening-Ticket (Standard Price)

4 chargeable events included

€33.00

Evening-Ticket (discounted)*

4 chargeable events included
*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+, disabled persons, students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€20.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, Evening-Ticket for the Literature-Tent (from 5.45 pm)

Included events:
5:45 pm - Tanja Maljartschuk
7:15 pm - Raoul Schrott
8:45 pm - Moritz Hürtgen
8:15 pm - Tijan Sila, Danijel Majic, Krsto Lazarević

Evening-Ticket (Standard Price)

4 chargeable events included

€33.00

Evening-Ticket (discounted)*

€20.00

Sunday, 2 July 2023, Evening-Ticket (from 5 pm)

Included events:
5 pm - Carolin Callies
6.30 pm - Annette Pehnt
8.15 pm - Katja Petrowskaja (Aula der Alten Universität)

Evening-Ticket (Standard Price)

3 chargeable events included

€25.00

Evening-Ticket (discounted)*

€15.00

Combi-Tickets

Combi-Ticket 3 (Free choice of 3 events)

Includes tickets for 3 freely selectable events.
The tickets are not personalized and therefore transferable (for discounted tickets only within the corresponding discount group).

The Combi-Ticket is not redeemable for events in the category "Events for children, youth, schools, students and families".

Combi-Ticket 3 (Standard Price)

€26.00

Combi-Ticket 3 (discounted)*

*Eligible for discount: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and severely disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€15.00

Combi-Ticket 3 for pupils & students**.

** Eligible for discounts: Pupils, students, trainees and persons doing federal voluntary service.

Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€12.00

Combi-Ticket 5 for pupils and students (free choice of 5 events)

Includes tickets for 5 freely selectable events.
The tickets are not personalized and therefore transferable (for discounted tickets only within the corresponding discount group).

The Combi-Ticket is not redeemable for events in the category "Events for children, youth, schools, students and families".

€20.00

Combi-Ticket 5 for pupils and students*

*Exclusively for students, trainees, schoolchildren and those doing federal voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€20.00

Events

Location:

Literature-Tent Universitätsplatz Heidelberg (Universitätsplatz 1, 69117 Heidelberg)

Please note:
Other venues are shown separately in the respective event description.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 6pm - Opening Event with Helga Schubert - Today: A book of hours of love

Moderator: Bernhard Robben

6 pm - 6.30 pm: Opening with welcoming speeches

Opening: Helga Schubert worked as a psychotherapist and writer in East Germany. After publishing several books she withdrew from the literary world, returning to win the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 for her short story Vom Aufstehen (On Getting Up). Her collection of stories under the same name was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2021. Helga Schubert’s Ein Stundenbuch der Liebe (A Book of Hours of Love) is a powerful and poetic tale of how to keep one’s own sanity and preserve another’s dignity under such circumstances.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 8 pm - Ana Marwan - Cocooned

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

Ana Marwan grew up in Ljubljana and now lives as a freelance writer in Vienna. Der Kreis des Weberknechts (Among the Daddy Long Legs) was her debut novel. She was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2022 for her short story Wechselkröte (Green Toad). Her new novel, Zabubljena (Cocooned) was awarded the 2022 Kritiško sito for the best book of 2021 in Slovenia.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 9.15 pm - Sinthujan Varatharajah - to all the places which lie behind us

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

Sinthujan Varatharajah is a freelance scientist and essayist in Berlin, where they curate the event series dissolving territories: cultural geographies of a new eelam. Their essays appear in The Funambulist, Jacobin, and Fluter, amongst others.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Thursday 29 June 2023, 5 pm - Katharina Hacker - On Living with Animals. Minute essays

Katharina Hacker lives in Berlin where she is a freelance author. She made her debut in 1997 with Tel Aviv. Eine Stadterzählung (Tel Aviv. A story of the city). This was followed by more works, mainly in narrative form. She has received many awards for her literary output, including the 2006 German Book Prize for Die Habenichtse (The Have-Nots). Her first volume of “minute essays” came out in 2019 under the title of Darf ich dir das Sie anbieten? (May I present: You).

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Thursday 29 June 2023 , 6.15 pm - Aya Cissoko - No Child of Nothing and No One

Moderator: Manfred Metzner / Interpreter: Stephan Egghart

Aya Cissoko is a French writer, political scientist and former world champion boxer. She published her first book danbé in 2011 in collaboration with Marie Desplechin, which was subsequently adapted for film and released in Germany as Wohin ich gehe. Her second book n’ba came out in 2016. Her third book Au Nom De Tous Les Tiens has been translated into German under the title Kein Kind von Nichts und Niemand (No Child of Nothing and No One). Aya Cissoko gives a voice to all those who society makes continues to erase through discrimination and exclusion and often condemns to silence.

The event will be held in French with German translation.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Thursday 29 June 2023, 7.45 pm - Ece Temelkuran - Will and Dignity

Moderator: Jagoda Marinić

Ece Temelkuran is a prize-winning Turkish author and journalist who lost her job at a major Turkish daily newspaper due to her opposition to the governing party. She now writes for The Guardian, The New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and DER SPIEGEL, amongst others. Ece Temelkuran won first prize at the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival and has received the Ambassador of New Europe award. Since 2016 she has lived in exile in Zagreb. Wille und Würde (Will and Dignity) represents a narrative for the present, for a world where humanity comes first.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Thursday 29 June 2023, 9 pm - Geetanjali Shree - Mai

Moderator: Bernhard Robben

Winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize, and of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, for her novel, Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi in the Hindi original), Geetanjali Shree is known for her innovative use of language and structure. She has written four other novels and five collections of short stories. Besides English, her work has been translated into many languages. Mai paints a portrait of three generations of one family and relates the challenges of really understanding one another.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Friday, 30 June 2023, 1 pm - Heidelberg University South Asia Institute and LUMS - Pakistan’s contested heritage

Talk: What is considered to be cultural and natural heritage in Pakistan, and how is it protected?

Speakers: The talk will be given by four students from Heidelberg University South Asia Institute, representing the group which traveled to Pakistan. They documented sounds, images and local knowledge, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in sides of Pakistan which are less well known to international audiences.

free

Friday, 30 June 2023, 3 pm - Samira El Ouassil und Friedemann Karig - Storytelling Apes

Samira El Ouassil is an author, actress, musician and politician. Since 2018 she has written the Wochenschau column for the Übermedien website, and has written an online column for DER SPIEGEL since 2020.

Friedemann Karig writes for publications including the Süddeutsche Zeitung, SZ-Magazin, Die Zeit and JETZT. His debut novel was Dschungel (Jungle) following Wie wir lieben. Vom Ende der Monogamie (How we love. On the end of monogamy), which came out in 2017.

Samira and Friedemann have co-moderated the Piratensender Powerplay podcast since 2020.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Friday, 30 June 2023, 1 pm - Ursula Krechel und Christian Pfeil - Ghost train

Moderator: Heidrun Helwig

Geisterbahn tells the story of the Dorn family, a German Sinti family from Trier who were subjected to organized despotism as a result of the murderous racial policy of the Nazi regime. While researching her novel, Ursula Krechel examined holdings in the Documentation Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg.

Christian Pfeil is a member of the German Sinti community and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in the Lublin ghetto 1944 after his family were deported there from Trier. For many years he has campaigned to promote local commemoration in his home city.

In partnership with the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Friday, 30 June 2023, 7.30 pm - Tsitsi Dangarembga - Tambudzai Trilogy: Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, This Mournable Body

Moderator: Bernhard Robben / Reading from the German translation: Abak Safaei-Rad

The Zimbabwean writer, dramatist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has found worldwide fame through her novels. She is considered one of Africa’s most radical feminist voices and has campaigned over the course of many years for feminist issues and political change. She has won awards and prizes around the world, receiving the 2021 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The Tambudzai Trilogy Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, and This Mournable Body follow the life of the trilogy’s main character Tambudzai.

In partnership with Verband Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar

Please note:
Location: Heidelberg University, Neue Aula (Universitätsplatz, 69117 Heidelberg)

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Friday, 30 June 2023, 8 pm - Frédéric Schwilden - Toxic Man

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

Frédéric Helmut Johannes Schwilden wrote about pop music for German Rolling Stone and went on to become features editor for WELT AM SONNTAG. Since 2018 he has worked in the political ministry of the world. His debut novel Toxic Man is an auto-fictional account of escaping the terror of the middle classes, of finding yourself, presenting yourself and almost destroying yourself. The stunning story of a young man who wants to be loved and admired.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Friday, 30 June 2023, 9.30 pm - The Long Night of Heidelberg authors, including the presentation of the “Heidelberg Author’s Shortlist Prize”

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako / Reading marathon with Open End

Reading through the night with Heidelberg’s authors. For the first time, the Long Night of Heidelberg Authors is taking place during the Literature Festival. Authors from the city’s literary scene present their diverse work at 10-minute intervals. A terrific evening as diverse and varied as the literary scene itself, putting the spotlight on texts published in the last two years.
Before the Reading Marathon, authors nominated for the Heidelberg Author’s Prize will give a series of short readings.

A list of all authors participating in the Long Night will be announced shortly.

Admission: 5,00 Euro incl. 1 drink

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 12 noon - Katja Berlin - What women have to justify themselves for

A reading in charts

Katja Berlin’s first book, Was wir tun, wenn der Aufzug nicht kommt (What we do if the lift doesn’t arrive) sold over 300,000 copies. It was followed by 14 books including several bestsellers. She has written columns for the Handelsblatt magazine and Berliner Zeitung. Her graphic column Torten der Wahrheit (Pie Charts of Truth) has appeared in ZEIT since 2015. In her current book What women have to justify themselves for Katja Berlin presents the modern world in satirical pie charts, pointing out the flaws in our politics and society with biting humor.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 1 pm - José F. A. Oliver - warrant of wounds

José F. A. Oliver is one of the most important poets writing in German today. His work has been recognized with many awards, including the 2021 Heinrich Böll Prize. His most recent volumes include wundgewähr (warrant of wounds) and In jeden Fluss mündet ein Meer (A sea flows into every river) He is the founder and curator of the Hausacher LeseLenz literature festival, and the poet-in-residence of the 2023 Federal Garden Show in Mannheim. In wundgewähr (warrant of wounds) José F. A. Oliver, “a word & world in the ear”, unpacks his “rucksack”. A gentle earthquake in every word.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Sunday 2nd July 2023, 2 pm - Claudia Schmid - Literary walk

Guided Tour

Die Schriftstellerin Claudia Schmid lädt zu einem literarischen Spaziergang ein. An ausgewählten Sehenswürdigkeiten in der Altstadt berichtet sie von der lebendigen Literaturszene der UNESCO City of Literature Heidelberg und trägt zudem Passagen aus »Blumenfieber« vor, ihrem aktuellen Krimi zur Bundesgartenschau in Mannheim, in dessen Mittelpunkt Heidelberger Buchhändlerinnen stehen.
Duration: about 1 hour

Meeting Point:
From 1.45 pm at the fountain at the university square (Grabengasse 1 in front of the Old University).

Single-Ticket

€5.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

€3.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 2.15 pm - Anise Jafarimehr - Tower of Freedom

Moderator: Marion Tauschwitz

The writer Anise Jafarimehr was born in East Kurdistan in Iran. Twice she was arrested and imprisoned by Iranian security forces for campaigning to preserve the Kurdish language and culture. In 2021 she was awarded a scholarship from the Writers-in-Exile program * of the German PEN Center. Her literary output includes a novel and several short stories such as Freiheitsturm (Tower of Freedom).

* The Writers-in-Exile Program of the German PEN Center provides grants for writers who face persecution. The program is funded on behalf of the Federal Government.
This event will be in English.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 4 pm - Reece Williams - Spoken Word Poetry & Vaiva Grainytė - Gorillas, sad beaches and a virus named the present. Literature as an intervention

Moderator: Jan Wilm / In partnership with UNESCO City of Literature Heidelberg

Spoken word poetry from the UNESCO City of Literature Manchester:
Reece Williams is a spoken word poet from Manchester with Jamaican and Trinidadian roots. In Heidelberg Reece Williams will give a solo performance of selections from his spoken word stagecraft. This event will be in English.

Vaiva Grainytė is one of Lithuania’s most important contemporary authors. In Heidelberg Vaiva will be presenting her richly varied literary output in a conversation. She will also present video extracts from her opera Sun and Sea and read from Gorilla’s Archive. The poems will be read in Lithuanian and German. The discussion will be held in English.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 5.45 pm - Tanja Maljartschuk - The story will continue shortly, we're just breathing out

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

Tanja Maljartschuk is a multi-award-winning Ukrainian writer and journalist. Her first collection of stories came out in 2009, published in a German translation as Neunprozentiger Haushaltessig (Nine percent household vinegar). Tanja Maljartschuk received the 2018 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text Frösche im Meer (Frogs in the Sea). How should we deal with the pain,anger and speechlessness which the war causes day after day? Tanja Maljartschuk pursues all these questions in her essays. At points analytical and composed, at others despairing, always mocking and full of wit.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 7.15 pm - Raoul Schrott - Inventory of Summer. On that which is absent

Raoul Schrott is an Austrian writer and scholar specializing in literature and comparative literature. He has won many awards for his poetic and narrative writing, including the Leonce und Lena Prize (1995), the Peter Huchel Prize (1999) and the Joseph Breitbach Prize (2004). In 2023 he will take up the post of Ernst Jandl Lecturer in Poetry at the University of Vienna.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 8.45 pm - Moritz Hürtgen - The Boulevard of Terror

Moritz Hürtgen has been editor-in-chief of the fearsome satirical magazine Titanic since 2019. As an author, too, he spreads fear and uncertainty. His collection of poems Angst vor Lyrik (Fear of Poetry) was published by Kunstmann in 2019, and now he is making is debut as a novelist with Der Boulevard des Schreckens (The Boulevard of Terror).

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023, 10.15 pm - Tijan Sila, Danijel Majic, Krsto Lazarević - The Latest from Ballaballa-Balkan

Live podcast in the Literature Tent

Ballaballa Balkan is one of the most popular independent podcasts. It's the one true podcast for palaver and polemic focusing on South-Eastern Europe, and this year the team are visiting Heidelberg for the Literature Festival. In Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan (News from the Barmy Balkans), hosts Danijel Majić and Krsto Lazarević explore a wide range of topics about the region and its culture. They will be joined in the Literature Tent by the writer Tijan Sila to present contemporary literature from South-Eastern Europe. You can expect controversy and commentary, all while a live podcast is created through the evening.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Saturday 1 July 2023 - DJ Afterparty - from 11.30 pm

Dj Name: KRS-Two
from 11.30 pm
Anarhija all over Hajdelberg
The best music from Yugoslavia and the many "successor states".
After the live recording of the News from Ballaballa Balkan Podcast, we continue with Balla Balla music to the festival party!

Ab 23.30 Uhr im Lesezelt. Join us! Open End.

Admission: 5,00 Euro incl. drinks

€5.00

Sunday., 2 July 2023, 10.30 am - Anne Rabe (literature: The Possibility of Happiness) & Katja Zakotnik (cello)

Matinée / Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

Anne Rabe is a dramatist, screenwriter and essayist. She has won many awards for her stage plays. She also appears as an essayist and speaker on the question of how to deal with the past in East Germany. Recently, for example, she presented two different sides of the argument about the approaches taken by Dirk Oschmann in his best seller, thereby contributing to Germany’s identity as a divided and reunited country. Anne Rabe lives in Berlin. Die Möglichkeit von Glück (The Possibility of Happiness is her debut in prose.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 2.30 pm - Dirk Oschmann - Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung

Moderator: Michel Friedman

Dirk Oschmann is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Leipzig University. His article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on this topic was widely shared and the subject of much comment. His book, which came out in February, prompted fierce debates and has held the top spot in the DER SPIEGEL bestseller list for weeks. In an incisive illumination of how the Othering of East and West German origins harms our society, Dirk Oschmann initiates a long-overdue discussion of identity.

Please note:
Location: Heidelberg University, Alte Aula (Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg)

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

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€5.00

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 3.30 pm - Xiaolu Guo - Radical: A Life of My Own

Moderator: Dr. Petra Thiel

Xiaolu Guo is one of the most high-profile Chinese British authors. Her works are often colored by her autobiography as she engages with questions of identity, language and love. She was on the panel of judges for the 2019 Booker Prize. Radical: A Life of My Own is a provocative and poetic text, a lexicon of encounters, separations, resilience and impermanence.
This event will be in English.
In partnership with the Konfuzius-Institut Heidelberg

free

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 5 pm - Carolin Callies - particle zoo

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

Carolin Callies lives in Ladenburg where she is an author and independent literature facilitator. Two volumes of her poetry have recently been published, fünf sinne & nur ein besteckkasten (five senses & only one cutlery tray) and schatullen & bredouillen (caskets & predicaments). She organizes the annual Ladenburger Literature Festival vielerorts and the Flaneure & Flaneusen series. She co-edited the “Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2021”.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Sunday, 2 July 2023, 6.30 pm - Annette Pehnt - The Dirty Woman

Moderator: Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako

As a writer and literary scholar, Annette Pehnt has won many awards, including the 2008 Thaddäus Troll Prize and the 2009 Italo Svevo Prize. In 2012 she was also awarded the Solothurner Literaturpreis and the Hermann Hesse Prize for her work. Die schmutzige Frau (The Dirty Woman) is a deceptively tender, inspiring novel about a marriage and its existential consequences.

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Sunday, 02. July 2023, 8.15 pm - Katja Petrowskaja - The photo looked at me

Moderator: Jagoda Marinić

The writer and journalist Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kyiv. She received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 for her debut novel Vielleicht Esther (Maybe Esther), which deals with her family history. It was translated into over 30 languages and has won many awards. She lives in Tbilisi and Berlin. In her book The photo looked at me she writes poetically about photography.

Please note:
Location: Heidelberg University, Alte Aula (Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg)

Single-Ticket

€10.00

Single-Ticket (discounted)*

*Eligible for discounts: Holders of the Heidelberg Pass / Heidelberg Pass+ and disabled persons.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€7.00

Single-Ticket for pupils and students*

*Eligible for discounts: Students, trainees, schoolchildren and persons doing national voluntary service.
Only valid with appropriate proof - please show this at the entrance without being asked.

€5.00

Events for children, youth, schools, students and families

Thursday 29 June 2023, 9 am - Jakob Graf - Flaschenpost vom Träumeling: Das Buch mit dem Bromm

Schulveranstaltung

Jakob Graf ist Autor, Schauspieler und Sprecher in Kinofilmen und Fernsehproduktionen. Derzeit ist er in der Rolle des Pathologen Dr. Phillipp Hartmann in der ARD-Krimiserie „Watzmann ermittelt“ zu sehen. Das im März erschienene Buch Flaschenpost vom Träumeling ist sein Kinderbuchdebüt. Ein ist ein Buch für Jung und Alt, für alle, die den Kleinen Prinzen lieben und die mit Douglas Adams schon mal Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis geflogen sind!

Note for school classes:
Please register your school class for the event by e-mail at feelit@heidelberg.de.

free

Thursday 29 June 2023, 11 am - Julya Rabinowich - Us, In Between

Event for pupils (7th & 8th grade)

Julya Rabinowich is a writer and columnist. She was born in St Petersburg and has lived in Vienna since 1977. Her first book for young readers Dazwischen: Ich (Me, In Between) won several awards, including the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize, the Austrian Children’s and Young People's Book Prize, and the LUCHS award. The follow-up novel, Dazwischen: Wir (Us, In Between) came out in 2022. A moving novel and a passionate call to resist exclusion and division in society.

Note for school classes:
Please register your school class for the event by e-mail at feelit@heidelberg.de.

free

Thursday 29 June 2023, 12.30 pm - Susan Kreller - Hanna’s Rain

Children’s literature: discussion with Professor Karin Vach

Susan Kreller is a freelance journalist and author. She has been awarded a Kranichstein Literature Scholarship. Her work has been nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award four times, and her novel Schneeriese (Snow Giant) won the Award in 2015. Hannas Regen (Hanna’s Rain) is her most recent novel.
Professor Karin Vach is Rector of the Heidelberg University of Education. She co-edits the “Kinder- und Jugendliteratur aktuell” series on new children's and young people’s literature. In 2021 and 2022 she chaired the critics jury for the German Children’s Literature Award.

Note for school classes:
Please register your school class for the event by e-mail at feelit@heidelberg.de.

free

Friday 30 June 2023, 9 am - Harald Kiesel - Kids.Book.Show

Event for pupils (2th - 4th grade)

Harald Kiesel ist Journalist, Autor und Übersetzer. Er war Kritiker und Juror, u. a. der Jury des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises, sowie Pressesprecher der Leipziger Buchmesse, ehe er als Programmchef in Kinder- & Jugendbuchverlagen wie Baumhaus und Beltz & Gelberg selbst Programme entwickelte. Harald Kiesel stellt einige der besten Kinder- und Jugendbücher vor, die er geschrieben, übersetzt oder lektoriert hat, u.a. Gregs Tagebuch, Die wilden Fußballkerle, Willi wills wissen oder Lauras Stern. So vermittelt er selbst Lesemuffeln den Spaß an Büchern. Die KinderbuchShow ist informativ, spannend, multimedial, humorvoll und kurzweilig.

Note for school classes:
Please register your school class for the event by e-mail at feelit@heidelberg.de.

free

Friday, 30 June 2023, 11 am - WORD UP! - Poetry-Slam

Performers:
The four poetry slammers Philip Herold, Tony Jäcklin, Judith Hofmann and Jonas Neuhäußer all have links to Heidelberg and have appeared at many poetry slams, winning prizes for their skills at various championships. A display of verbal and emotional fireworks, combining fantastic entertainment with depth, incisive criticism and offbeat comedy.

Note for school classes:
Please register your school class for the event by e-mail at feelit@heidelberg.de.

free

Sunday 2 July 2023, 1:30 pm - Ralph Caspers - When Giants Journey and When Glowworms Send Morse Code

Children's literature / followed by book-signing hour

Ralph Caspers is an author and presenter for the famous children’s TV programs Die Sendung mit der Maus, Wissen macht Ah! and Quarks. He also writes non-fiction and children's books and has received many awards for his work and engagement. These include the Prix Jeunesse International, the Goldener Spatz, the Erich Kästner Television Prize and the Grimme Prize. He will be reading from two of his works in Heidelberg.

Note for school classes:
Please register your school class for the event by e-mail at feelit@heidelberg.de.

€5.00